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THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER. 27 orchids. Nothing can have dropped on it from them. A bright day to you and clear eyes !" "She does not know she has taken it then," mused the professor, so she is not to blame pretty creature The flowers have much to answer for in loading her if they know what they are about. Ah, well! I must look into the matter a little further." Saying which he went on to visit several other flowers of the spike, but observed nothing new in them, until at last he came to one where was a different state of things indeed! The shelf on which the foreign bodies usually stood was there, but no foreign bodies were upon it. Dr. Earwig grew bold in consequence. He would take a good look round," he thought, and did so, peeping into the dark entrance of the nectary, though he did not venture down, being uncertain what he might find at the bottom. Pat in gazing across the opening he perceived that the back wall -that below the protuberance-had a sticky surface like those on which flower-dust is commonly shed; and what was that in one corner-a patch of flower-dust ? was it possible ? how could it have